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Aviation observation — Tasman Peninsula — 1942

Australia1942

Tasman Peninsula, Australia

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Case description

In 1942, an aviation observation was reported at or near Tasman Peninsula, Australia. The catalogue lists the aircraft and observers as An RAF aircraft pilot. Its time field reads 17:50. The object resembled an isolated aerofoil, with a reflective bronze appearance and an upper dome. The source retains a season, approximate part of a month, alternative month/day, or otherwise incomplete date: 42 summer. No missing day is invented. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February 2001), PDF page 5, table row 13.

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